I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
CLARENCE DARROWAncestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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